Persistent organochlorine pollutants in eggs of colonial waterbirds from Galveston Bay and East Texas, USA

• Main Authors: Frank DS, Mora MA, Sericano JL, Blankenship AL, Kannan K, Giesy JP
• Other Authors: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
• Format: Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Galveston Bay,Texas,USA; polychlorinated biphenyls; dioxins; chlorinated pesticides; colonial waterbirds; CORMORANTS PHALACROCORAX-AURITUS; CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS; FISH-EATING BIRDS; GREAT-LAKES; 2,3,7,8-TETRACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN EQUIVALENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; PCBs; PESTICIDES; CONGENERS; Todd; Alexander Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/23409

608-617 Eggs of neotropic cormorants (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), black-crowned night herons (Nycticorax nycticorax), and great egrets (Ardea alba) nesting on several locations in Galveston Bay (TX, USA) and at two control sites outside the bay were collected during April-May 1996 and analyzed for c...